Fiddle, Charles Wilkins - banjo, and piano, Columbia 33267-F. Pioneering Old Time singer/fiddler Fiddlin' John Carson also recorded a song called If There Weren't Any Women in the World, but with a different melody than this one. The title seems to fit in with the last few bars of the second part here, which culminates in a high D, requiring the fiddler to shift position. It can easily be played in G, though.